david arribas

photography

Doc martens. Created by the german doctor Klaus Martens. These boots have been very used by the punk and skinhead movement. During the 70's groups such as Sex Pistols and The Clash introduced the punk aesthetic as a symbol of identity.

Punk family.

Concert in "The Dragona", self-managed occupied house. Cemetery of the Almudena. Madrid, Spain. The Occupied movement is closely linked to punk philosophy, although not all occupies are punks.

1312 tattoo indicating the position of the letters “ACAB” in the alphabet. The 4Skins group (1979-1984) made their theme “ACAB” (“All Cops Are Bastards”) very popular song. With a skin head aesthetic, their lyrics showed daily life topics, social problems and violence in the UK.

Rafa. Bass guitarist of punk band “Ansia Viva”.

Tattoo session.

Bullets, chains, beer opener and pocket knife are part of punk clothing.

Practice session of the music band. Punk music is one of the most common ways of conveying messages about total disagreement with society, anti-fascists and anti-capitalists ideas with great violent content.

Speed. The most commonly used drug. Consumed by nasal route, speed is composed of amphetamine sulfate, sometimes amphetamine is adulterated with other substances or medications. It was created by Dr. L. Edeleano in 1887 with medical purpose to induce alterations in the central nervous system and as a bronchodilator. Later this medication was released as a potent drug causing euphoria and great addiction.

The “Pogo” is a hard dance in which members are pushed and beaten during concerts of punk and hardcore music.

Women are very active members of the punk scene. "China" has been punk since she was very young. She is currently married with another punk.

Housework.

The antifascist movement have a great important inside the movement.

Rotten and Wattie ( dead in 2017 ) are two big boxer. Their names are in honor to Wattie Buchan singer of the group The Exploited and Johnny Rotten (John Lydon), Sex Pistols´s singer.

The crest began to be popular in 1979. With origins in the Mohican Indians, the hair is raised with soap and other products. Vini has been a musician all his life. After some problems with drugs, he lost his twin brother, also punk, due to an heroin overdose.

During the 80's the heroine resulted in the death of a generation of punkies. The slogan "Live fast and die young" became very important in the young punk life. Currently Vini is a tattoo artist and guitarist in his punk band.

Love and violence.

“D.O.Y.” Do it yourself. It is another slogan of anti-capitalist punk philosophy. It proposes to replace the purchase of articles of necessity by the self-management and own manufacture. Everything outside the established system. In this sense, the jacket, fundamental pledge of punk clothing, is customized showing the personality of its owner.

All members of this project will be punk throughout their lives. Everyone agrees on one thing: "Punk not dead".

Ansia.

The first beginnings of the punk movement can be found on late 1960’s in Detroit and New York. In 1976 in England it began as a philosophy and a sociocultural movement with great intensity. Punk was born as a consequence of the socioeconomic crisis of the western countries that left the great majority of the population in difficult conditions of exclusion, unemployment and political and social instability.

In Spain this movement was born later, in 1977, after the Franco dictatorship as an escape of accumulated anger, and an anti-fascist and anti-capitalist character.

When I look back and try to remember my adolescence I cannot do it without listening punk or rock music on the background because I grew up on that ambient so it’s a familiar topic to me. For this reason I decided to create a protographical project about the way of life of a punky group. I talked to a punk band about the "Ansia Viva" project and my interest on giving a documentary evidence of the meaning of "being punky" with a view from inside the movement.

Between the years 2014 and 2017 I went to their concerts, rehearses and their meetings. I created a confident atmosphere that allowed me turning into something similar to another member of the group. In adittion, I was interested on finding adult punkies who had lived and would live forever on the punk's philosophy.

I wanted to show their day by day, their life (their couples, their sons and daugthers, drugs, music, etc.) and, over all, their disagreement with the society, sometimes very close to the hate.